Bernard Gardner wrote...to Don Woodward Jr.

>You got a ZIP drive working? I'm amazed, mine hangs every time I write to a
>file system on it - I've been trying to track down the problem for months. Try
>writing a largish file onto it, say cp /netbsd /mnt (or wherever you have the
>ZIP mounted).

I untared the sys.tar sources - 34mb on the ZIP and it's mounted in /zip.

>
>If you could answer the following questions for me, it might help me track down
>the bug:

>What kernel are you using?

Experimental - I was told not to reveal the source yet.


>How did you format/partition the disk (i.e. what program, under what operating
>system, what parameters)?

I used Silverlining to partition a 1200k Mac partiotion and the rest Unix user.

>How did you run mkfs (same as above).

Ran the Mac side mkfs with parameters from a past posting by wookie@us.net
(THANKS!!!!)

Sector size: 512
Sectors/Trk: 40
Tracks/Cyl: 512
Number Cyl: 2046

When I got to NetBSD I ran "fsck -f /dev/rsd2d" in my case and created a
"lost+found" directory  and then mounted it - I believe it didn't the
lost+found directory.


Hope this helps - perhaps the kernal will be relesed by the maker soon.

-- Don




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